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Updated: 5:02 PM Aug 26, 2010
Keeping the Memories of Samantha Burns Alive
The mystery surrounding the disappearance of a Marshall University student almost a decade ago still keeps an entire community searching, but now a group which focuses on finding people who have disappeared is back in our area.
Posted: 10:46 PM Aug 25, 2010Reporter: Stephanie Schelkun Email Address: Stephanie.Schelkun@wsaz.com |
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WEST HAMLIN, W. Va. (WSAZ) -- Sometimes the biggest fear in a missing person's case is the fear of forgetting. Forgetting about the kidnapping, the search, the agony the family went through and continues living with. That's what one very special group is making sure doesn't happen with Samantha Burns.
"It's been like roller coaster," says Candy Burns, the mother of Samantha. "You don't know if you're going to be up one day or down the next, or both the same day."
It's been eight and a half years since 19-year-old Samantha Burns disappeared from the Huntington Mall parking lot.
After years of questioning and digging, two men are paying for her murder, but the search for her still remains.
"There is parts of her out there somewhere and we just want to bring her home so that we can give her a proper burial and we can have somewhere to go pay our respects to her," Tammy Adkins, Samantha's aunt tells WSAZ.com.
The CUE Center for Missing Persons made a stop in West Hamlin Wednesday to not only bring awareness to Samantha's case, but to hold the hands of those going through such tragedy.
"It's amazing to know a total stranger coming in to look for your daughter's remains and before she leaves, you're all a family," says Candy.
Chad Fulks is sitting on death row for Samantha's murder. Over the past several years, he's given up information and even locations of where to find her, but with little luck.
WSAZ.com's Stephanie Schelkun asked Candy if she ever feel like Chad Fulks is toying with her family, giving her false locations of Samantha's remains. All Candy replied was, "sometimes, but he's the only one that knows."
Samantha's remains may still be missing, but she is not forgotten.
She is very much alive in the hearts of family, friends and so many in the community.
Chad Fulks and his accomplice Brandon Basham have both pleaded guilty to Samantha's abduction and murder, and are on death row in Indiana.
They have also pleaded guilty to another murder of a woman in South Carolina around the same time Samantha was taken.
Latest Comments
I agree!! They should be ready and willing to turn Samantha's Dad loose on both of those "so called humans" they deserve every bit of what he will give them--then perhaps they will have something to tell the police and they should apologize to the family and thats just the beginning!!!
I think they should turn Samanthas dad John loose on them for five min's, they would talk.
Brenda~Are you willing to meet with family members to tell what you know about the location of where Samantha is buried?
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